Improvement in wagon-brakes



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Wagon-Brakes.

No.147t825.

Patented Feb. 24.1874.

Inventor:

Witnesses Attorneys.

UNITEE STATES PATENT 'Orrron.

JESSE C. COLEMAN, OF CLINTON, KANSAS.

IMPROVEMENT IN WAGON-BRAKES.

Specification forming part oi Letter: Faient N0. 147,825,1latcd1kkzunl 24, 1574; application filed May 5, 1873.

T 0 all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, JESSE 0. COLEMAN, of Clinton, in the county of Douglas and State of Kansas, have invented a new and useful Improvement in Wagon Brakes, of which the following is a specification:

I11 the accompanying drawing, Figure 1 represents a top view of my improved wagonbrake; and Fig. 2, a vertical transverse section of the. body of the wagon, on the line C C, Fig. 1, showing side view of brake.

Similar letters of reference indicate corresponding parts.

The invention consists in the improvement of wagon-brakes, as hereinafter described, and pointed-out in the claim.

In the drawing, A represents the body of a wagon, to which are hung, by suitable chains a, the brake-bars B and B, of wood or other suitable material. Bar B extends across the body A, and connects, by lever-rod b, with the handle'lever O. The shorter bar B moves'with its curved end (1 in a staple, e, of bar B, gliding easily on the same, and presses, by the forward motion of the lever end of bar B, the outer end of bar B, with that of B, toward the wheels. Skid-shoes .D, lined with leather or wood rubbers, are attached to the ends of bars B B by suitable bolt, nut, and band connectionsf, so as to be adjustable above or below the hubs to the Wheels, as desired. A metallic guide-bar, E, is firmly applied to short bar B, and extends back over the end of the long bar B, serving as support for the same. The end of the bar E is attached, by a chain, 9, to a hook of the body A. Chains 'i connect the bars B B from their points of suspension to a double hook, it, pivoted in the central axis of the wagon. They serve to keep the brakebars from swinging sidewise ofi the wheels.

All the chains used are made adjustable to the hooks, and may, therefore, be detached and attached, as desired.

The whole brake arrangement may be taken off, and every part easily be replaced.

Having thus described myin vention, I claim asnew and desire to secure by Letters Patent- The combination, with bars B B, held together by a staple, e, of the guide-bar E, chains 6 'i, and pivoted hook it all in the manner set forth.

- JESSE U. COLEMAN.

Vitnesses H. M. STOKES, E. G. MAOY. 

